Fishing tackle



8 1950 B. F. REYNOLDS 2,519,851

FISHING TACKLE Filed Oct. 15, 1948 IIHII JNVENTOR. Bey filmin FeyvoZa s BY 7 WW *m Patented Aug. 22, 1959 e. w it. rat

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Uctober l5, lit-i8, Serial No. 54,691

scmbly wherein the rod provides a comfortable hand grip for casting and means engageable with a separable support for supporting the rod in dependently on the ground or other base, such as c2: or pier, and can be disassembled for storin a conventional tackle box, wherein the ily engageable with the rod and tackle box, and which rod and support assembly 's simple and durabie in construction, economial to manufacture, and neat attractive in appearance.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the following description and the claims in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure l is a side elevation of a fishing rod and support assembly illustrative of the invention, a portion of the rod being broken away and shown in cross section to better illustrate the construction thereof;

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the rod and sup port assembly illustrated in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a transverse cross section taken substantially on the line 33 of Figure l; and

Figure i is a perspective view of a support block constituting an operative component of the assembly.

With continued reference to the drawing, the rod portion of the assembly comprises, in general, a shank it and a flexible staff H, and a support comprises a support block it and a pin is.

The shank it has a hand grip it at one end, preferably covered with cork or some similar material to provide a comfortable grip, an offset socket l at the opposite end which socket is provided in its outer end with a longitudinally extending, centrally cisposed well it provided with internal screw threads. A reel seat H is di posed between the offset soclret i5 and the hand grip it and is provided with a transverse, screwthreaded aperture into which is threaded the reel tightening screw it and a finger grip l9 projects outwardly from the shank at the end of the reel seat ll adjacent the hand grip Hi. This finger grip is inclined downwardly and outwardly and also somewhat forwardly toward the right-hand side of the rod when the rod is opercomfortable grip.

cor prises an elongated, flexible ncn h e guide eyes 25 secured there- 3 an enlar 1 tang 22 at the butt end of the on ichtang is provided screw threads threadhe well it of the socket it.

it and the staff it are of generally length so that when the tang 22 is:dis- -ed the socket E5, the staff and shank be placed by side for convenient storage in a c 'l entional tackle box.

' is formed on the underside of the i5 and extends longitudinally of the Oppositely disposed, longitudinally exen g grooves provided in the side walls of the socket to, as clearly illustrated in Figure 3, provide a construction in which the outer por tion or bottom of the hey is provided VViL-h oppositely disposed, longitudinally extending lat eral flanges for securing the support block E2 to the shank it of the rod.

i'he su, port block 22, as particularly illustrated in Figure 4, comprises a square body 28 of suitable material provided in one surface with a contraliy disposed wide groove 271, which extends medially of one major surface of the body a distance somewhat less than the width of such surface. A square cover plate 23 is secured over the grooved major surface of the body 26 by suitable means such as the screws 29 and this cover plate is provided with a medially extending slot 30 having a width somewhat less than the width of the groove 2'5. As illustrated in Figure 3, the slot 3i? has a width equal to the distance between the grooves 2 in the socket is and the groove 2'3 has a width equal to the width of the flanged outer portion of the key 23, so that the support block E2 is slidably engageable with the key on the socket of the shanlr it. The body 2% is provided with substantially centrally located, internally screwthreaded recess 3i which opens to the side of the blocl: opposite plate 28 but terminates short of the groove 2?.

The pin is is a straight member, preferably of circular cross-section having one end pointed, as indicated at 32, and external screw threads adjacent its opposite end threadable into the recess (ii to secure the pin to the support block to extend substantially perpendicularly from said block at the side of the latter opposite that in which the groove 271 is provided.

The shank ill, the stafi M, the support block l2 and the pin I3 are all preferably formed of suitable metal to provide a strong and rigid construction. The shank I is preferably formed of a light weight metal or alloy such as aluminum or magnesium, while the staff II is preferably formed of a tempered steel or bronze alloy providing maximum strength and flexibility while the pin I 3 may be formed of a suitable hard steel or similar material. The support block [2 may be formed of either steel or an aluminum alloy as may be found convenient or desirable.

With the support block and pin detached, the rod may be used for casting in the conventional manner, and if the fisherman decides to change from casting to still fishing, he can quickly apply the support block and pin to the shank of the rod and insert the pointed end of the pin into the ground or other base to support the rod without the necessity of the rod being manually held.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the 'spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The present embodiment is, therefore, to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are, therefore, intended to be embraced therein.

What I claim:

1. A fishing rod and support assembly comprising a rod shank, a key formation on said rod shank near one end of said shank and extending longitudinally thereof, said key formation having flanges extending laterally from the opposite sides thereof at the edge of said key formation remote from said shank, a support block having in one side thereof an elongated groove opening at one end to an edge surface of said block and closed at its opposite end, the width of the bottom portion of said groove being substantially the same as the width of the flanged portion of said key formation and the width of the outer portion of said groove being less than the width of said bottom portion and substantially the same as the thickness of the portion of said key formation between said flanges and said shank where- :by said key formation will slide into said groove to the closed end of the latter and will be closely received in said groove, and a pin secured at one end to said block and extending substantially perpendicularly from the latter at the side of said block opposite that in which said groove is pro- Vided.

2. A fishing rod and support assembly comprising a rod shank, a key formation on said rod shank near one end of said shank and extending longitudinally thereof, said key formation having thereon oppositely projecting lateral flanges extending longitudinally thereof and spaced from said shank, a support block having in one side thereof a groove having a width substantially equal to the width of the flanged portion of said key formation and a depth substantially equal to the thickness of said flanges, a plate on said one side of said block and secured to the latter, said plate having therein a slot substantially centered relative to the groove in said block and having a Width substantially equal to the thickness of said key formation between said flanges and said shank, said groove and said slot together constituting a keyway in which said key formation is slidably received, and a pin secured at one end to said block and extending substantially perpendicularly from said block at the side of the latter opposite said plate.

BENJAMIN F. REYNOLDS.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,577,612 Dees Mar. 23, 1926 2,311,823 Gaskill, Sr. Feb. 23, 1943 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 351,379 France May 5, 1905 202,193 Switzerland Jan. 15, 1939 68,275 Norway Sept. 4, 1944 

